Topics include: The state of music writing before the mid- to late 1960s; the original visions of the pioneer magazines; music and the New Left/counterculture; women in the “boy’s club.”
Suggested reading: “Lesley Gore: They Don’t Own Her,” Let It Rock, (1975); “Big (Fleetwood) Mac: The Cover Story,” Rolling Stone (1978); “Perils of Rock Criticism,” Rock & Rap Confidential, (1994)
